From Classroom Chaos to Capitol Fireworks

Summary

Podcast Summary: The Rob Carson Show

Episode: From Classroom Chaos to Capitol Fireworks

Date: May 4, 2026
Host: Rob Carson (Newsmax Radio)
Guests/Contributors: Blaine Holt, Jim Gossett, Scott Bessent, Victor Davis Hanson, Pete Hegseth, others

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Rob Carson Show offers Rob's signature blend of pointed political commentary, satire, and interviews. The hour focuses on political protests in schools, chaos in the Democratic party, controversial Senate candidacies, the current situation in Iran, military reform and accountability, and a critique of mainstream media narratives. The episode is peppered with cutting humor and parody, particularly emphasizing education system failures, left-wing activism, alleged Democratic hypocrisy, and national security matters.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Protests and "Classroom Chaos"

Theme:
Carson criticizes recent May Day protests across the nation, particularly the involvement of teachers’ unions releasing students to participate in demonstrations.

• Teachers’ Union Critique:
  • Carson accuses teachers' unions of prioritizing "Marxist" and “woke” agendas over basic education.
  • Heavy criticism for bussing and releasing students for protests — described as "bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party” [00:22-02:00].
• School Choice Advocacy:
  • “No one could do more to promote school choice and homeschooling than these guys and gals across the country.” — Rob Carson [01:59].
  • Carson presents poor literacy and math statistics from Chicago Public Schools as evidence for system failure and to push for school choice [02:55].
• Viral Literacy Exposure:
  • Philadelphia high school student records classmates struggling with words like “silhouette,” “extraordinary,” and “gauche.” Student faces expulsion for exposing illiteracy [03:15-04:30].
  • “They're trying to read… these are kids of color, by the way… in Democrat run districts… the schools are always terrible.” — Rob Carson [04:30].

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2. Capitol Fireworks: Political Rhetoric and Violence

Discussion:

• Claims of Media Bias and Politically Motivated Violence:
  • Criticism of Jake Tapper’s coverage of alleged anti-Trump violence and how mainstream media responds to manifestos of would-be assassins [04:45-06:24].
  • "Any excuse they can use to read the manifesto of the guy who tried to kill Donald Trump…” — Rob Carson [04:03].
• Democratic Party Critique:
  • Allegations that Democrats are so opposed to Trump they'd support almost any candidate, even those with Nazi sympathies or controversial histories.
  • Example: Graham Platner, a Senate candidate in Maine, is discussed for his Nazi memorabilia and highly offensive comments about women and rape [07:09-10:30].
  • Panelists and parodies highlight Democratic voters’ "hatred for Trump" as overriding other concerns [09:50, 13:45].

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3. "School Choice" and Public School Failures

Focus:

• Ongoing argument that public schools are failing, citing literacy and competence data.
• Use of viral social media content as anecdotal evidence.
• Blames “Democrat-run” districts for failing students, especially students of color, arguing these schools foster “grievance and dependence” [04:30].

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4. Iran Conflict and War Powers Debate

Analysis:

• Interview with national security experts, including Blaine Holt and commentary from Victor Davis Hanson and Scott Bessent.
• Exploration of the status of Iran’s navy, US blockades, and global economic ramifications [23:00–28:24].
• Scott Bessent: "Their navy is not a navy anymore. It's a band of pirates... We have absolute control of the strait." [26:25]
• Strong criticism of European and Asian allies for lack of support in military blockades [27:39, 28:24].
• Commentary that the Democrat party is acting as “proxies” for Iran, allegedly hoping for a Trump failure for political gain [24:00, 28:24].
• War Powers Act debate - skepticism about Congressional attempts to limit the executive's war-making abilities [29:24–29:50].

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5. Pentagon Audit and Defense Reform

Announcement & Reaction:

• Pete Hegseth discusses plans for the first Pentagon audit in years: “We’re taking a sledgehammer to the broken bureaucratic systems…” [32:23].
• Rob and Blaine Holt express skepticism, demanding transparency and accountability for missing funds and procurement reform:
  • “Those polyps will be malignant, brother… I want to know where the $2 trillion that's missing…” — Blaine Holt [33:00]
  • “If all this is, is a step to a $2 trillion budget, then take me out of it.” — Blaine Holt [34:26]

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6. Christianity, Nationalism & ‘Woke’ Critique

Congressional Hearing Clip:

• Exchange highlighting criticism toward open displays of Christianity and nationalism within government roles [36:04–36:48].
• Pete Hegseth defends his faith: “I am not ashamed of my faith in Jesus Christ.” [36:26]
• Blaine Holt: “What's wrong with being a Christian or white or nationalist?... This is what we've allowed to get by us.” [36:48]
• The discussion pivots to broader grievances about DEI (diversity, equity, inclusion) policies, arguing they foster division rather than unity [37:51].

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7. Satire & Comic Relief

Parody Segment:

• Jim Gossett performs a satirical song lampooning Graham Platner and the Democratic party’s alleged tolerance for extremism if it means opposing Trump [13:45–15:07].
  • “Graham Platner is insane… The Democrats in Maine… How can they be for him?” — Jim Gossett [13:54]
• Rob Carson mixes in mockery and hyperbolic humor throughout, maintaining a light yet biting tone.

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8. Controversial Protests and Threats in Politics

Coverage:

• Coverage of violent threats toward politicians, including calls for violence allegedly justified by some on the political left [18:43].

  • “56% of self identified left wing respondents said they justified murdering the United States President…” — News Reporter citing a Rutgers study [18:43].

• Airing clips of Senate candidate Graham Platner's scandal and coverage of Stephen Cooper/Katrina Deville, who was filmed at a shooting range with targets of Trump [41:02–42:02].

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9. Money and Outside Influence in Politics

• Reports that funding for Graham Platner's campaign is flooding in from out-of-state, with California, New York, Massachusetts contributing heavily and little coming from Maine [39:39].
• Carson’s facetious comment: "He would have been like a panelist on Geraldo Rivera's show back in the early 90s when he was having midgets of the KKK." [39:39].

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10. Media and Government Accountability

• Scathing critique of mainstream media coverage, accusations of lies and narrative manipulation especially surrounding Trump and violent rhetoric [10:00–10:13; 18:43–20:34].
• Calls to “push back” by making voices heard at local and national levels [25:49].

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Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments (w/ Timestamps)

• Rob Carson on school protests: “These teachers unions need to be shut the hell down because they don't exist to make sure kids can read and write. All they do is they want to forward a Marxist agenda.” [00:22]
• On promoting school choice: “No one could do more to promote school choice and homeschooling than these guys and gals across the country.” [01:59]
• Parody moment: “Graham Platner is insane… the voters should say, see you later, women. He’s trashing Israel’s passion, a Nazi lover… The Democrats in Maine…” — Jim Gossett [13:45–14:38]
• On media coverage of Trump: “Any excuse they can use to read the manifesto of the guy who tried to kill Donald Trump…” — Rob Carson [04:03]
• On defense reform: “We’re taking a sledgehammer to the broken bureaucratic systems of the past…” — Pete Hegseth [32:23]
• On overt Christianity in government:
  • Senator: “That direction from your behavior is an intense interest in Christianity, in nationalism…”
  • Pete Hegseth: “I am not ashamed of my faith in Jesus Christ.” [36:04–36:26]
• On Pentagon waste: “Those polyps will be malignant, brother. There's no question about that... I want to know where the $2 trillion... is.” — Blaine Holt [33:00]
• On Democratic opposition to Trump: “For the past decade, Democrats have been unified by our opposition to Donald Trump.” — Guest Commentator [09:45]

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Timeline of Important Segments (Timestamps are approximate)

• 00:22–03:15: Schools and May Day protests; criticism of teachers’ unions, student demonstrations
• 03:33–04:30: Viral video of illiteracy in Philadelphia schools
• 05:46–10:47: Media coverage of anti-Trump violence, Graham Platner controversy, panel critique
• 13:45–15:07: Jim Gossett's parody song about Graham Platner
• 17:09–18:32: Lee Zeldin and Rob Carson on left-wing violence, “stochastic terror”
• 18:43–20:34: Rutgers poll on justifying political violence; threats against politicians
• 23:00–25:38: Discussion with Victor Davis Hanson, Blaine Holt on Iran conflict and global politics
• 32:23–35:44: Pentagon audit; defense budget and military reform
• 36:04–38:04: Hegseth, Warren, Blaine Holt on DEI, Christianity, and Congressional hearings
• 39:39–41:02: Out-of-state funding in political races
• 41:02–42:02: Stephen Cooper/Katrina Deville segment on threats, political violence, and extremism

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Tone and Style

• Language: Direct, irreverent, often satirical.
• Approach: Mixes factual discussion with pointed humor, parody, and mockery of political opponents.
• Perspective: Strongly conservative, highly critical of the political left and mainstream media.

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For Listeners Unfamiliar with the Episode

This episode provides a fast-paced, unfiltered take on the week’s political news, using both anecdotal and data-driven points to argue for school choice, military reform, and a return to traditional values. It pulls no punches in assailing Democratic leadership and media conduct, supplementing argumentation with parody and rhetorical jabs. Key takeaways include concerns about politicization of education, growing political violence, and calls for greater transparency and accountability in both the public sector and government institutions.

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End of Summary

Transcript

[Rob Carson]

Hold it.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Now

[Show Announcer]

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.

[Rob Carson]

This is hour number two of the Rob Carson Show. Welcome to it. What a glorious day in America. It's already the 4th of May. It was retruthed by the President of the United States. United States. Last night again, he took a 10 minute segment of I show Rob Carson's what in the World and he posted it on Truth Social because he watches the show and he has for many years. So what a, what a gift. Thank you, Mr. President. I appreciate you so much. It is a beautiful day in America. And aside from a bunch of bought and paid for political hacks, you know, throwing temper tantrums for the last decade about losing the election because they can't win on ideas, Americans love America. America. Great things are happening in America. Thank you very much. And all the Democrats can do is freak out. This is a. The May Day protests were on Friday and they illegally Teachers unions let kids out of school to go participate in Marxist. This is nonsense. This is absolutely unacceptable. Not only irritating, but absolutely. These teachers unions need to be shut the hell down because they don't exist to make sure kids can read and write. All they do is they want to forward a Marxist agenda. All of the WOKE nonsense, all the transgender nonsense. And here's a mom, the based mom is what she calls herself and her comments on hundreds of schools around the country letting class out and not only that, busing kids to these May Day protests that are bought and paid for by the Chinese Communist Party, among others.

[Rob Carson (continuation or another segment)]

I want to thank the teachers unions and the brave teachers who took students out of school yesterday to go out and protest for May Day. No one, and I mean no one, could do more to promote school choice and homeschooling than these guys and gals across the country. They brought thousands of kids out of the classroom and into the streets to protest. In some cases they did abandon the kids altogether and just gave them a day off to sit home. All day long they screamed about a mosh posh of causes, things like no kings, anti ice, no wars, no billionaires, tax the rich, workers rights and whatever other slop they could throw into their anti American trough. It was another whole day of teaching kids how to hate America. And just to add to their advertisement for dumping public schools altogether, let me give you a snapshot of what's going on in Chicago public schools which is not unique to Chicago. This is a nationwide Problem. As of last fall, only 43% of Chicago Public Schools third through eighth graders could read at grade level.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson (continuation or another segment)]

Only 27% could perform math proficiently. And that is after they lowered the standards for what it means to be proficient.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson (continuation or another segment)]

So once again, to all you whack jobs in the education system, I want to extend a heartfelt thanks. You're doing all the legwork we need to promote homeschooling and school choice.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. There was a kid in Philadelphia. High school student decided he would showcase his fellow classmates inability to read. They're illiterate. And he's facing expulsion for showing the truth. I want you to play a little sample of this. They were having trouble reading words like silhouette and extraordinary.

[Blaine Holt]

Read the indie score for me.

[Philadelphia High School Student]

She wore a suit. Clothes that were.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, silhouette is the word she was looking for.

[Philadelphia High School Student]

Who's this for?

[Rob Carson]

Extraordinary. Didn't know how to spell. Didn't know how to read. Extraordinary.

[Philadelphia High School Student]

Extraordinary. But somewhat Gertrude gauche.

[Rob Carson]

What that mean?

[Philadelphia High School Student]

I don't know. She were a sahalat.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, they're trying to read. She wore a silhouette of clothes that were extraordinary but somewhat gauche. That were extraordinary. Whatever, bro. Extraordinary bar.

[Philadelphia High School Student]

But some.

[Rob Carson]

Now go to that. Go to that. That protest, that mayday protest there. What does that mean?

[Philadelphia High School Student]

She wore a lot. Wait, she were.

[Blaine Holt]

Bro.

[Philadelphia High School Student]

I don't know, bro. Can you take the card back, please? She wore a. Oh, baby. To wear a silhouette.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, there you go. That's Philadelphia kids. These are kids of color, by the way. I'm not saying exclusively kids of color are unable to read when they graduate from high school. But I will tell you, in Democrat run districts that have been gerrymandered according to color, the schools are always terrible. And they lie about the test scores and they lie about everything. And they graduate kids with no absolute ability to have any reasonable or good skills to survive only grievance and dependence. So thoroughly disgusted. So thoroughly disgusted. Oh, this is pretty funny. Old Jake Tapper had Judge Jeanine on his show this weekend and he decided that he would. They're trying to. Any excuse they can use to read the manifesto of the guy who tried to kill Donald Trump at the White House correspondence dinner because he called Donald Trump a pedophile rapist. You know, because that's what Democrats have been calling Donald Trump. It's a lie, you know, about the Jeffrey Epstein files where he has been exonerated. But Jake Tapper was looking for any excuse to read those words, acting like they're not affiliated with Donald Trump. And Judge Jeanine would Have none of it.

[Guest or Panelist]

So you alluded to the target being clear by the manifesto. The only name in the manifesto is Cash Patel. He cites Cash Patel.

[Rob Carson]

He leaves him out.

[Guest or Panelist]

He.

Which he says he's not. Cash Patel is not a target. He does say, and I want to apologize for using this language, but.

[Rob Carson]

No, you don't. You just want to say it. You just want to say it does

[Guest or Panelist]

say, quote, I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes, unquote.

[Rob Carson]

First of all, that's outrageous. I mean, there's a lot of other things you could have referred to. This guy is a hater. He hates Trump so much, he wants.

[Guest or Panelist]

Is he talking about Trump?

[Rob Carson]

You're going to have to ask him that. I don't really care.

[Guest or Panelist]

So I'm going to ask you a question.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, my God. You're not that frickin clueless. Of course, he also, I didn't know Joe Biden is, you know, mental decline. I didn't know he had dementia. I don't know what the hell. I mean, it was a complete surprise at the, at the debate that I hosted that maybe this guy had cognitive decline. And then, of course, after Joe Biden was removed from the race because of the cognitive decline and somebody who never had anything cognitively was replaced him named Kamala Harris, he goes ahead and writes a book about it. I mean, honestly, wow. Just what a. Not only you're not a journalist at all, you're just the most despicable human being I could possibly imagine. Of all the ways you could prove your despicability, that's just, I mean, the most, I mean, I swear, crazy, crazy, crazy. But, you know, I got this guy named Graham Platner who is, I mean, a dark and awful human being. Really, really awful human being. And he's running for Senate in Maine. And the Democrat Party is willing to past his awfulness, his Nazi past. He. He had a Nazi. Is a pure Nazi. Skull crossbones and metal, like World War II helmet on his head, which is absolutely 100%. You're a Nazi. And he says, well, the reason I did it, because I have ptsd. I know a lot of guys with PTSD who would never pledge allegiance to the Nazis. But, you know, the Democrat Party hates him so much, Donald Trump so much that they're willing to elect Satan himself. Well, why wouldn't they? They worship Satan at, you know, Democrat parties in Washington, D.C. but here, here's an ad from, from Janet Mills in Maine talking about not Only his, his Nazi past. But he's also said some really bad things about women deserving to be raped.

[Guest or Panelist]

Did you know Graham Platner wrote that women worried about rape need, to, quote,

not get so f ed up they wind up having sex with someone they don't mean to.

[Rob Carson]

It's disgusting.

[Guest or Panelist]

Platner wrote, to avoid rape, women should,

quote, act like an adult for sake

[Rob Carson]

Graham Platner and not go out with Eric. We blame the victim. That's a horrible thing to say.

[Female Guest or Panelist]

Disqualifying.

[Rob Carson]

I have not seen this.

[Guest or Panelist]

He's a bully.

[News Reporter or Narrator]

This guy gives off a vibe.

[Philadelphia High School Student]

Just.

[Female Guest or Panelist]

No way.

[Rob Carson]

I could both. You see that, that, that beard that he's got? It's just grotesque. It's, it's like he has a, I don't know, his mouth barely moves in a wall of hair for you. No, it's like a cow's anus decided to talk.

[Guest or Panelist]

Graham Platner. The closer you look, the worse it gets. I'm Janet Mills and I approve this message.

[Rob Carson]

Thanks for the visual there. I appreciate it. Adam Bockler, who's this little, little Snowflake on, on CNN. I think he's like 18 or something, maybe 17. And, and Jennings always shreds him on it. He, he, listen. He literally says that our hate for Donald Trump is, is so much greater. We will elect a Nazi. Listen.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

Or a Republican candidate who had had a Nazi tattoo, covered it up when he was running for something and had said all the things that he had said about black people, about women, about rape, etc. Do you really think there's a world in which Democrats would be like, let's just let bygones be bygones. That's the past.

[Guest or Panelist]

I think we're entering a new era and we'll see what the base wants. We'll see who wins when the.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, we'll see what the base wants. If the base wants Nazism and, I don't know, marching the Jews into the gas chamber, then I guess we better just vote for it to.

[Guest or Panelist]

Election happens. But for the past decade, Democrats have been unified by our opposition to Donald Trump.

[Rob Carson]

Ding, ding, ding. There you go. There's the tds.

[Guest or Panelist]

And now Graham Platner has a forward looking message. So if Donald Trump or if another Republican had a Nazi tattoo, I don't know. Donald Trump has dinner with Nazis.

[Rob Carson]

Not that that's an absolute lie. I mean, I mean, honestly, what, you little jack weed, you should be removed from the air.

[Guest or Panelist]

Far from, you know, it's happening. But there's also.

[Rob Carson]

He just lied There. Nobody called her out. Abby Normal didn't say a thing.

[Guest or Panelist]

Plausible deniability regarding grandfather's tattoo. We don't know if he knew. We don't know what he knew.

[Co-host or Guest Commentator]

But it's not just that. Not just the tattoo. It's not just the tattoo.

[Blaine Holt]

Listen, that sounds so pragmatic.

[Rob Carson]

Honestly, where do you get these children? Dear God. Did you pick him up from a mayday rally that he was released in high school? From high school for Debbie Dingle, who if she was married to Marion Barry, her name would be Debbie Dingle Berry. She was on with the cnn. She's the same thing. Even though he said all these things about women being raped and everything, she's cool with it because you know Donald Trump.

[Female Guest or Panelist]

So first of all, I'm going to say I was very upset as a woman who has dealt with domestic violence, grew up in a home and other sexual violence. Very upset by what his previous comments were. I am not in the ground on Maine. I think that people need to, how

[Rob Carson]

about you say we shouldn't even attempt him. He shouldn't be on the damn ticket.

[Female Guest or Panelist]

People are angry. People are upset. People want change in.

[Rob Carson]

Okay, so people are so mad at Donald Trump for doing a great job with the economy and closing the southern border and all that that they would rather have a Nazi this country.

[Female Guest or Panelist]

And if you don't see people standing up to the president, then you see some of the results of what happened in Maine. I am very concerned about remembering in all of our elections that we got to win the general election.

[Rob Carson]

How much was your soul Democrat Party? Trillions of dollars. Yeah, trillions and trillions of dollars. That's how much the Democrat Party sold it. So for you, you Democrats voters, you, you didn't get a damn dime, but you just paid for it. There you go. New satire from Jim Gossett about the Graham Platner candidacy on the other side of the break. Let's take that break now. This is the Rob Carson Show. Hey, guys, it's Carson. You know my signature phrase, don't catch the stupid. When it comes to Medicare, that's easier said than done. Medicare is overly complex with thousands of plans hidden, gotchas in the fine print and rules nobody really explains to you. Many people just pick something and hope for the best. That's why you need to know about chapter. They're the only advisor that looks at every plan in the country. Matches your doctors, your prescriptions and your situation to a plan that fits your needs. When your call with chapter is done, you know your doctors Are covered, your prescriptions are matched and you go from I hope I did this right to I know I did. That, my friends, is peace of mind. A call with chapter is free for my audience and there's no pressure to sign up. Call chapter today. Here's the number. 27 Medicare. That's 27 Medicare. 27 Medicare for Chapter. No pressure. What's your excuse? Call 27 Medicare and don't catch the stupid yourself. Call 27 Medicare today.

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[Guest or Panelist]

Did you know Graham Platner wrote that women worried about rape need to, quote,

not get so up they wind up having sex with someone they don't mean to.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, I don't think Graham Platner is going to be the senator, by the way. I don't even think may are that ridiculous. This is Jim Gossett on the Rob Carson show.

[Jim Gossett]

This lunatic in main for Nazi tattoo wearing haters.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, that's a white supremacist right there.

[Jim Gossett]

Graham Platner is insane. Yeah, the voters should say, see you later, women. He's trashing Israel's passion. A Nazi lover. He's blown his cover. The Democrats in Maine, Democrats in Maine. Wagner. How can they be for him?

[Rob Carson]

How can they be?

[Jim Gossett]

There is no way to explain how much they adore him.

[Rob Carson]

They love their Nazis for the Democrat Party.

[Jim Gossett]

He's a fanatic. He is a radic. They must reject him. Cannot elect him. Have they lost their mind of man? Have they heard his racist ranting? Anybody with a brain,

[Rob Carson]

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[Congressman or Political Analyst]

Yeah, it's really the middle of this decade that really, from the moment President Trump was getting sworn into office In January of 2017, you had a lot of supposed leaders on the left who were messaging to their followers to take extreme steps.

[Rob Carson]

It's called stochastic terror.

[Congressman or Political Analyst]

To confront Trump administration officials wherever you see them. We lived through the 2017 a shooting of Steve Scalise, which, thank God the Capitol Police officers responded as heroically as

[Rob Carson]

they Bernie Sanders supporter.

[Congressman or Political Analyst]

Or you would have had up to a couple of dozen dead members of Congress. Over the course of this last decade, there's been this evolution beyond rhetoric. It almost feels third world. I felt this in 2015, 2016, when I first got to Congress. I was on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and I saw all these Middle Eastern countries. Everybody was calling their opposition terrorists. Yeah, everybody was a terrorist.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Congressman or Political Analyst]

And you see, the rhetoric here in. In the US Would go from, you know, right wing Tea Party extremist to, you know, the evolution as they realized that the label wasn't working. And eventually all you are left with is that next level of saying, okay, we're out of words. Now we have to start actually confronting our political opposition.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, I'm done with it. It. Done with it. Done with it. Done with it. This is from. Let me see. Who is this from? Real America's Voice. I want you to listen to this, this is a new poll of people

[News Reporter or Narrator]

at Rutgers University and Rutgers University study 56% of self identified left wing respondents said they justified murdering the United States President, not opposing him, not protesting him, murdering President Trump. More than half. So let's talk about January 6th.

[Rob Carson]

People walked into the January 6th was a PSYOP. People didn't go there to overthrow the government. They would have brought weapons. And listen, if we were going to, you know, overthrow the government, as patriotic Americans, you know, we'd bring guns because we have them. But we didn't. We went there to propose protest and obviously rigged and stolen election and they, they performed a psyop. They led us into a, you know, the old Horseshoe Canyon, lead you into the Horseshoe Canyon, ambush you. That's what they did. That's what they did, yeah. And here's this story out of Pennsylvania. A guy named Raymond Chandler, he's running for office. He threatened Donald Trump's life.

[News Reporter or Narrator]

The just unsealed court documents reveal what federal officials say were plans to kill the President, a member of Congress and his daughter. Federal agents write that these plans were left as voicemails, court papers. In one message, Chandler gave a congressman who has not identified a violent scenario saying, they pull you out of your house and they slit your throat and they slit your daughter's throat and they slit everyone's throat.

[Rob Carson]

Wow.

[News Reporter or Narrator]

That, you know, sir, that is the future. In another, agents write that Chandler described what he wanted the lawmaker to do, saying, sir, I'm calling this evening because what I want you to do is I want you to take a firearm, I want you to put it in your hand, I want you to walk into the Oval Office, I want you to put that firearm to the President's head and I want you to pull the trigger and I want you to kill him. Raymond Chandler iii, whose flyers for Senate are still.

[Rob Carson]

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[Victor Davis Hanson]

60 days in the Iran war and we're getting a lot of mixed signals. Just because Iran now is talking boastfully does not mean it has not been soundly defeated. Their preferred option is delay, delay, delay. The same 47 years, seven different presidents. And why are they doing that when they lied and said 12 tankers had broken out of the blockade? Chris Murphy, a US Senator, amplified that lie and not only did that, but he editorialized and said it was awesome. Tom Friedman said, well, I'd like him to lose, but not if it empowers Trump. They can help build opposition in the United States. They think the American left can put pressure on Donald Trump, get elected in the midterms, control the House and Senate, and then enact the War Powers act and cut off funding. Pressures. Upon him will be the world economy, the price of gas and his polls. Otherwise we can talk and talk as they do. But the cards are in our hands because they are hemorrhaging money and we're not. Just because a nation survives doesn't mean that it's winning.

[Rob Carson]

There you go. That is the great victor Davis Hanson and the Democrat Party is essentially proxies of the, of the Iranian regime. The media, too. They really are. They're, they're playing along. They're almost like soldiers for hire in our country. Propagandist join us to talk about this is a retired Brigadier General, Blade Holt, host of the Dangerous Intellectuals podcast. How are you doing today, sir?

[Blaine Holt]

I am doing great. And isn't Victor Davis Hansen a national treasure?

[Rob Carson]

I swear to God, he's one of those people. You know, there are few people that I, over the years, like Charles Krauthammer used to love listening to Charles Krauthammer. But when Victor Davis Hansen speaks, I just stop everything. I do, too.

[Blaine Holt]

I absolutely do, too. And he's got it exactly right. Yeah, we're winning. And what this war has also done has fleshed out the Democrat Party. And actually, frankly, some on the, on the right side of the aisle as well have really shown their true colors that you're so invested in hoping that Donald Trump fails that you're willing to throw your tacit support behind the world's number one state sponsor of terror. And I think that speaks for itself. I think it's right there in the naked light. And what's going to happen next is we're going to close the patient up. We're going to win this thing. The 90 million Iranian people get their country back, and we're going to get the world economy back on track. And we have flushed out every bad actor from Europe to Beijing to the United States.

[Rob Carson]

Well, you know, I've been saying, as I said, the left exposes its flank so we can kick its ass. That's what they do, dude. That's what they do. That's what they do. They bend over and it's like, oop, it's sticking out. Kick it. Kick it.

[Blaine Holt]

Well, Trump's arrangement syndrome is a real thing PDF, and they prove it every day. But there's another thing out there, and I call it PCs Trump Complacency Syndrome, meaning the rest of us here in America, we can't just sit back and say, hey, the man's got it. No, he doesn't. He needs our help. And that's gonna be required for these primaries, the midterms, making our voices heard and pushing back and getting to your local city council and saying, no, no, no, no, no, no, we're not going to put up with this anymore.

[Rob Carson]

No, not at all. This is Scott Bessem, this morning, I believe, talking on Fox about the state of Iran.

[Scott Bessent]

So let's level set here. I think The Iranians are starting to believe their own propaganda. And just to be clear, the leadership is. They hunkered down in bunkers all over the country and I don't think they know what's going on. But what is going on is that they're reduced. Their navy is not a navy anymore. It's a band of pirates. They are trying to cut off international freedom of navigation through the Strait of Hormuz. And the US is opening that up. This is a humanitarian effort, I can tell you. Two weeks ago was IMF World bank week in Washington. And I had numerous countries come up to me, some of the poorest, some of the most vulnerable, and ask us to do this because it's not only energy that's in there. It's fertilizer, it's food transport, it's LPG for the more than. More than the billion plus people in India used to cook. So we are saying the Iranians do not have control of the strait. We have absolute control of the strait. We have blockaded the ships going into.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, it's costed of what, $500 billion a day or $500 million a day, the Iranian economy. And I don't know how they continue to survive much longer, Brother.

[Blaine Holt]

No, they don't. They're zeroed out and they're going to fall down under their own weight. But you know, more importantly, Scott, dissent. He has done God's work in exposing the City of London's laundering networks that involves no less than seven banks that he sanctioned. Lloyd's of London is blown up. And so in the naked light, what you see is Europe, our allies, pushing back, fighting the United States openly and then include Japan and South Korea. They can't. This is where their vital interests are not our own. And yet they can't even be bothered to put a demining ship and a dog named Rex in the straits with us. It's just all laid bare. It's all laid bare. And I think it's great. Great for everybody.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. Now the Democrats want Donald Trump to fail. They are rooting for our military to fail. They are. There's no doubt about it whatsoever. They want the job to not be finished so the Ayatollah can rise again. And then they could say Donald Trump failed. That's what they want. There's no doubt about this whatsoever. This debate last week about the War Powers Resolution is an attempt to defund the operation. So it is. There is a remnant, a seed that can grow in Iran back into the monstrous mess that it was when the ayatollah was in charge.

[Blaine Holt]

Yeah. Let me just add on a little bit to that club you're talking about. Thune, Murkowski, McConnell, Collins. Same bucket brother, no aisle. They want D.C. to go back to the way it was. The neocons make their money off the defense industrial base. Everybody else has their own little county options. And they don't want President Trump shining a light on the swamp and saying we have to change now or we're going to lose the country.

[Rob Carson]

Donald Trump said that we've had three weeks of ceasefire that does not count towards the 60 days supposedly in the War Powers act, which by the way is a suggestion. Barack Obama had us bombing the stan out of, was it Syria for like six months. Bill Clinton had us involved in all of these things. Iran or I should say Afghanistan lasted 20 damned years. So do they have anything, any ability to enforce the War Powers act at this point?

[Blaine Holt]

Nothing. And I think the President should actually just take up the legal case. Let's just run it all the way up to scotus. Because the President is currently acting in his role as Commander in Chief under Article 2, Section 2. He would be derelict in that duty if he didn't prevent this regime from even whispering that they wanted nuclear weapons. And they will just come back like a weed if we don't finish it off here. And only they'll be revenge minded. And so I think he should take the action. But he's right, he's. And he's handling it beautifully well. But the thing is we just get back to the detractors and a court system and the ledge branch. It's all just gotta be laid bare as to who's got what equities. And are they American and Constitution equities or do you play for some other team?

[Rob Carson]

I wanted to continue on the other side of the break with with Blaine Holbein. Last week Big Hegseth announced they're going to do the first of its kind audit in years of the Pentagon which could, you know, lay bare a lot of things. And I'd love to hear your thoughts on that. I know you got some thoughts on that. So again, dangerous intellectuals dot com. By the way, Blaine Holt's got this terrific podcast called Dangerous Intellectuals. You need to make it a weekly thing. It's really good. It's really good. Let's take a break and come back. Welcome back. This is the Rob Carson Show. Hey guys, it's Carson for Ghostbed. I am sleeping better than I've ever slept in my entire life. I used to think A mattress was just furniture, but I got a ghostbed. Ghostbed doesn't build mattresses like furniture. They build engineered sleep systems. Their beds are serious health equipment. Beds designed for relief and recovery, not looks. Your body should be healing while you sleep, not fighting for comfort. I noticed immediately my first night on a ghost bed. I slept for 10 hours. If you're waking up stiff, tossing and turning, sleeping hot, even reaching for a pain reliever before bed, hoping tonight will be different, that's not aging. That's your mattress talking. Here's another thing I love about Ghostbed. You get 101 nights to try it at home. If you don't like the difference, you send it back risk free. Ghostbed is currently having their Memorial Day sale plus an extra 10% off for my audience. Go to ghostbed.comcarson and use promo code carson ghostbed.comcarson promo code carson for the sleep of a lifetime.

[Pete Hegseth]

Today that changes. As it has during this administration. The era of excuses is over. We're taking a sledgehammer to the broken bureaucratic systems of the past to finally provide the rigorous fiscal responsibility this building so desperately needs. Under President Trump, we will secure a clean, unquestionable audit on our 2028 financial statements.

[Rob Carson]

Now, they have not had a, an audit of the Pentagon in many, many years. And clearly it's time for a colonoscopy. And I think they're going to find all sorts of polyps. What do you think, Blaine Holt?

[Blaine Holt]

Oh, and those polyps will be malignant, brother. There's no question about that. So I want to know where the $2 trillion that's missing that Donald Rumsfeld told us was missing before 911 is. I want to know why we haven't reconciled the books. I want to know where the corruption is. I want to know who got money they weren't supposed to get, who had contracts they weren't supposed to get. How many sole source contracts? How many that subverted the federal acquisition regulations? And then once it's all done, what are the fixes to this? So we can't have this kind of graft and corruption. Does that mean we're going to have massive corruption reform? Are we going to have ethics reform so generals can't just do revolving doors with senior executive service guys and hit board jobs at, you know, mega companies, 400 large a year? These are all the things that get into this if we're going to be serious about this. So we've tried 17 times now. Is this the winner? I'm all for it. Because, yeah, Brother, we have got to stop paying 4 million bucks a missile when your enemy is throwing a $20,000 drone in your face.

[Rob Carson]

100%. 100%. So the. the same time, they want a massive increase in the defense budget. So how do you, how do you square those with all of the, the waste, fraud and abuse and this, I mean, I'm assuming this is a way to pave the way to that increase in the budget to expose all of the fraud and, and get rid of it.

[Blaine Holt]

Yeah. So if that top line is temporary, and I understand the terrible connotations of that statement because nothing has ever. I mean they just permanentize all the, all this growth. But if we take the top line, we put it into procurement reform and we reach, we change and how we are going to fight wars and we get caught up with things like shipbuilding, dry dock, the ability to have a dry dock, all the stuff that was left in arrears so that we could go get some space age gonculator. I'm all for it. And then bring that budget right back down once we get procurement reform done. But if all this is, is a step to a $2 trillion budget, then take me out of it. You know, we've got to be very careful because just building another tank and building another airplane that'll go one knot faster. That's not where war is now. Yes, we've got to keep up legacy systems, a few carriers is a good idea, but we've got to think differently about defense. We're in a fifth generation battle. Space, space, quantum computing, you know, all these new things that even President Trump has been showing a little leg on, like his discombobulator. We've got to look at where we're putting These dollars down 100%.

[Rob Carson]

Did you see the hearings last night with Hegseth versus the Democrats? It was absolutely, it was, it was just delicious. It was absolutely delightful. I want to share a little bit. I want to share one of the most sinister things that I heard coming from a member of Congress alluding to things. And I'll get your comments on the other side, but it is like almost demonic to me.

[Senator or Politician]

That direction from your behavior is an intense interest in Christianity, in nationalism, and in not recognizing the talents of women and non white gentlemen. And that's the wrong direction.

[Pete Hegseth]

I don't know what you're insinuating, Senator, but I am not ashamed of my faith in Jesus Christ.

[Stephen Cooper / Katrina Deville]

Well, I.

[Senator or Politician]

You shouldn't be.

[Pete Hegseth]

And if you want to shame me for it, go ahead.

[Senator or Politician]

I'm not shaming you.

[Rob Carson]

Yes, you are.

[Senator or Politician]

Are you critical of other faiths?

[Pete Hegseth]

I am a believer. I'm quite open in that. And our department allows.

[Rob Carson]

Wouldn't you want. Wouldn't you want to have a nationalist as your department to do? Secretary of War?

[Blaine Holt]

Yeah. What's wrong with being a Christian or white or nationalist? And it doesn't mean you hate somebody that is different from you. This is what it is. It's. Oh, you said the word Christianity. I guess you hate everybody who's not like you. And it's. This is what we've allowed to get biased. We don't rebut these things. We don't refute these things in public. And so don't have our Secretary of war just stand out all by himself. Get vocal and loud. It's okay to be who I am. And I accept everybody if they're a legal citizen of this country and they adhere to American values and they love their constitution and their freedoms. I would commend every American to go see the new movie A Great Awakening and the story of the relationship between Pastor George Whitfield and Benjamin Franklin and how that relationship really saved this country. It's all completely factual. But when I look at these DEI warriors and these woke warriors, all they want to do is create division all over the place. And we're not that way. We're a melting pot. We're a widely diverse nation. And we were before all this crap became vogue.

[Rob Carson]

Yes, of course.

[Blaine Holt]

What they want to do is put us in our little camps and pitch us against each other. And then if you step out of line and don't say something quite in line with the DEI Wilkester, well, then they'll come after you just like this, this clown did on the Hill.

[Rob Carson]

Here's a little bit from Liz Warren and Pete Hegseth. The Financial Times reported that your broker tried to buy hundreds of shares in

[Female Guest or Panelist]

a BlackRock fund invested in defense companies

[Rob Carson]

just before the war began.

[Female Guest or Panelist]

The law clearly prohibits the secretary.

[Pete Hegseth]

That entire story is false. Has been from the beginning and was made up out of whole cloth.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, where was that? Question for Millie? Honestly, what the hell? Really? Are you kidding me? BlackRock has been the biggest beneficiary of defense contracts in the history of mankind. And it didn't start with Pete Hexade. Plus, she was also. There was a story that was absolutely false.

[Blaine Holt]

He should have asked Big Chief Running Nose about her finances and her investments. The university professor has got millions and millions of dollars under her belt. Really loves private jets now, although, you know, she's for the little Guy.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, yeah. She is remarkable. By the way, somebody on the chat said she wrote into Congress with a scalp of Spirit Airlines.

[Blaine Holt]

Oh, that's funny.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, brother. I appreciate you being on the show today, Blaine Holt. Where can people find your glorious podcast Dangerous intellectuals?

[Blaine Holt]

Come to dangerous intellectuals.com and you're in for a treat today. We've got Guy Grantresca. Amazing background and it's all about the wei t a Chinese term which means first character is danger but the second character is opportunity. And so in these tumultuous times, look for those nuggets, look for where you can excel and thrive. And Guy's going to tell us all about that.

[Rob Carson]

I love it, man. I appreciate you have a glorious rest of your week. We'll talk soon. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson show. It is the Rob Carson Show. Blaine Holt, always fascinating conversation, right. I'm very blessed to be able to bring people like Blaine Holt to the, to the show show. By the way, you know this Graham Platner, the Nazi, you know, woman hater, whatever freak show from hell. Believe it or not, all the money that's coming into Maine to elect him is coming for out of state total receipts. About $12 million cash on on hand. 2.7 million. Money not from coming from Maine. May resident, Maine Residents account for 919,000. California, 647,000. New York, 609,000. Massachusetts, 400,000. Colorado, D.C. florida, 350,000. All of that. By the way, they say that he is burning through cash at an unsustainable rate. I don't believe he's going to be the senator because he's bananas. Just, I mean, despicable human being would have been like a panelist on Geraldo Rivera's show back in the early 90s when he was having midgets of the KKK. Yeah, it was actually one of his shows. I remember that. It really was. It was one of his shows. It was funny money. Then there's, then there's this

[Victor Davis Hanson]

here.

[Rob Carson]

Oh yeah. So Stephen Cooper, a trans identified male running for Congress in Wisconsin's 8th district took to TikTok to walk back his, her, it's they, them, theirs, whatever. Threat of Donald Trump at a gun range. He had cutouts of Donald Trump and he was shooting him up and he's walking back these things. He goes by the name Katrina Deville. This is your Democrat party and if you can see this guy, if you're watching the stream, you'll see he looks like Cruella deville. But he's a man with fake eyelashes. He's insane.

[Stephen Cooper / Katrina Deville]

I'm running for United States congress in Wisconsin's 8th congressional district. I'm showing up every day and at every event that I possibly can for you because I love the people of district.

[Rob Carson]

No, you're, you're insane.

[Stephen Cooper / Katrina Deville]

I want to be clear about a couple things.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Stephen Cooper / Katrina Deville]

There's some things I said online last week when I referenced a post from Monoco Brewing Company.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Stephen Cooper / Katrina Deville]

I did so to stand up for Kirk's First Amendment rights.

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

This is a brewery in, in the state of Wisconsin and this guy is an absolute ass who runs it. And he, he gets free beer if Donald Trump gets killed at his brewery. He's a, he's a, he's an evil man. He's an evil man. You know, and I've heard again like through, throughout the show, much of the, much of the research I do for the show, which is non stop by the way, beginning to echo. Demonic, you know, the sounds of like demonic stuff coming from the Democrat party. On the other side of the top of the hour, Tucker Carlson called out by the New York Times for calling Donald Trump the Antichrist. Tucker Carlson is, he's done, he's lost most of his following. Good. 53% or 55% of people are saying we're done, we're done with your nonsense. And then on the other side of the break also spirit Airlines and JetBlue, they have the opportunity to come together. But Liz Warren, who knows nothing about business, and Pete Bootycig who know nothing about transportation, blew up the merger and now a lot of people are without a work, without a work and without work. And then also a lot of people lost their, their, their plane reservations because the Spirit Airlines went out of business. Thanks to Democrats. That's on the other side of the break. Don't go anywhere.

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