Gavin Newsom’s Global Ego Tour & The Berkeley Meltdown You Won’t Believe!

Summary

The Rob Carson Show: Gavin Newsom’s Global Ego Tour & The Berkeley Meltdown You Won’t Believe!

Date: November 12, 2025
Podcast Host: Rob Carson (Newsmax Radio)
Featured Guests: Harmeet Dillon, Andrew Colvett, Blaine Holt

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Episode Overview

This episode focuses on the latest political drama surrounding California Governor Gavin Newsom’s perceived presidential ambitions, his absence from governance in California, and the broader decline of the Democratic Party’s coherence and appeal. Carson and guests also address the violent disruptions at UC Berkeley during a Turning Point USA event, analyzing the erosion of free speech on college campuses and escalating political violence from the far left. Key international updates include analysis on the shifting Russia-Ukraine war, the war on drug cartels, potential unrest in China, and the implications for U.S. domestic policy and security.

Carson interweaves humor and sharp critique throughout, decrying hypocrisy in media, progressive politics, and university administration, while repeatedly returning to patriotic calls for a revival of American values.

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Key Discussion Points and Insights

I. Government Shutdown and Media Narratives

[00:51–02:02]

• Media hypocrisy around who is blamed for, and ultimately “owns,” government shutdowns:

  • The host and commentators lampoon both the initial blaming of Trump and the subsequent effort by Democrats to shift blame as the shutdown ended.
  • Quote:

    "At least they're finally admitting it was the Dems shutdown. They owned this fiasco, like Sunny Hawson's ancestors owned slaves." —Political Commentator [01:39]

• Rob Carson emphasizes the revival of conservative comedy rooted in truth, contrasting with the left’s “unfunny” and allegedly untruthful satire.

  • Quote:

    "Satire isn't satire unless there's truth. If you just sit there and lie every night during your monologue... it's not funny." —Rob Carson [02:02]

II. Gavin Newsom’s “Presidential” Grandstanding

[03:54–06:21]

• Carson criticizes Newsom's world tour, equating it to an ego-driven campaign for the presidency at the expense of California governance.
• Highlights wasteful spending on failed policies: $130 billion on high-speed rail, $30 billion on homelessness — with little progress.
  • Quote:

    "He is so profoundly selfish that he has abandoned the people of California in many ways to campaign for president." —Rob Carson [05:41]

  • Guest Karen Bass's critique:

    "You have people who are suffering extreme amount of frustration, anger and pain because of whatever type of bureaucratic red tape, delays and incompetency is resulting in the local and state leadership..." —Karen Bass [05:13]

III. Economic Optimism and Biden-Era Woes

[07:03–09:14]

• Clip from Trump touting economic prosperity and lower prices, especially Thanksgiving meal costs.

  • Quote:

    "A Thanksgiving meal cost 25% less this Thanksgiving... than it did last Thanksgiving." —Donald Trump [07:39]

• Economic expert criticizes prior administration for spinning inflation issues as just a “vibe.”

  • Quote:

    "They said it was a vibe session. And instead of owning the inflation, they..." —Economic Expert [08:15]

IV. International Affairs: Bailouts and the Trump Administration’s Approach

[09:39–10:33]

• Discussion of US financial assistance to Argentina via “swap lines.” Debate over characterizing this as a “bailout” and affirmation of US economic strength as a geopolitical tool.
  • Quote:

    "We used our financial balance sheet to stabilize the government... I would rather use peace through economic strength than have to be shooting at narco boats..." —Economic Expert [10:00, 10:13]

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The Berkeley Meltdown: Free Speech Under Siege

[12:34–19:24]

The Turning Point USA Incident

[12:34–19:24]

• Carson and guests recount violent protests at Berkeley during a TPUSA event hosted by Rob Schneider, blaming Antifa and university leadership.

• DOJ and Civil Rights Division (Harmeet Dillon) launching full investigation into whether the university intentionally failed to protect conservative speakers.

  • Quote:

    "It is not a both sides problem. When a violent mob like Antifa comes and attacks like this, it's what we call a heckler's veto..." —Harmeet Dillon [13:08]

• Allegations of institutionalized bias: Berkeley protects left-leaning speakers (Dalai Lama, Sonia Sotomayor), but not conservatives.

  • Quote:

    "When Sonia Sotomayor comes to speak... the Berkeley campus somehow is able to protect the speaker... and when it's a conservative speaker, it isn't." —Harmeet Dillon [14:06]

• Andrew Colvett (Charlie Kirk Show) describes tactics to suppress crowd size and stifle conservative voices, including focusing protest zones at entrances and left-wing activists grabbing tickets to keep seats empty.

  • Quote:

    "We had about 500 tickets of people that didn't show up. And that's their whole game. They want to grab the tickets and then leave it empty to make it look like we don't have a big growing movement..." —Andrew Colvett [18:51]

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War in Ukraine: New Realities and Failed Policies

[23:05–29:49]

In-depth with Blaine Holt

[21:51–29:49]

• Holt outlines a major breakthrough for Russian forces encircling Pokrovsk, jeopardizing Ukrainian logistics and opening the path to further Russian advances.

  • Quote:

    "Russian forces... have finally now encircled it and taken it. There's really thousands of Ukrainian troops that are trapped." —Blaine Holt [23:32]

• Critiques Biden administration's piecemeal support for Ukraine, lacking strategic clarity and effective logistics.

  • Quote:

    "They may have sent incrementally weapons on painstakingly slow wartime logistics... What we didn't give them was a strategy." —Blaine Holt [25:54]

• Historical context: Western leaders (Merkel, Hollande) saw Minsk Accords as a ruse — ongoing betrayal and escalation.

• Corruption in Ukraine and alleged US complicity, specifically concerning the Biden family.

  • Quote:

    "World's largest crime scene. Joe Biden admitted as much when he was on the CFR stage as the vice President about how he pushed around their, Their. Their justice system." —Blaine Holt [29:16]

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The War on Cartels and International Drug Trade

[32:29–35:18]

• Germany and the UK resisting US interdiction of drug routes in Latin America signals, according to Holt, US success in disrupting cartel-associated financial networks tied to global elites.
  • Quote:

    "The fact that they're squawking and getting all angsty about us interdicting drug running supply chains means that we're tapping into very sensitive spots about how money is laundered by the cartels." —Blaine Holt [32:29]

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Potential Unrest in China

[35:28–36:21]

• Holt reports growing unrest and economic collapse in China, with grassroots anti-CCP resistance—potentially monumental consequences.
  • Quote:

    "The Chinese people are now starting to rise up at the lower levels... they're putting posters everywhere... down with the CCP." —Blaine Holt [35:35]

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Supreme Court and the Use of National Guard

[38:58–39:48]

• Carson discusses the Supreme Court’s decision on Trump’s use of the National Guard to quell urban violence.
• Democratic opposition (J.B. Pritzker, Brandon Johnson) seeks to curtail federal intervention, with Johnson appealing to the UN.
  • Quote:

    "No country should be above international law." —Brandon Johnson [39:31]

  • Carson’s retort:

    "We are not ruled by international law." —Rob Carson [39:37]

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Notable/Memorable Quotes

• "The patriotism and the joy are going to overwhelm these people as they spiral into hell." —Rob Carson [03:08]
• "The worst poser, the worst example of a human being... the fakest politician I've ever seen in my life." (on Gavin Newsom) —Rob Carson [04:04]
• "I hope some heads are cracked. I really, really do." —Rob Carson [12:39]
• "This nonsense has to end. We have a country that is here to protect unpopular speech." —Rob Carson [17:48]
• "The university system has become the opposite of what it was supposed to be." —Rob Carson [17:55]
• "We have somebody in office who is causing these universities to lose major funding for anti SEM and whatnot... Enough is enough. And if all else fails, shut them down." —Rob Carson [19:24]
• "The cartels go through the Chinese Communist Party, shadow bankers, the private bankers and the World Economic Forum..." —Blaine Holt [33:33]

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Segment Timestamps

• 00:51–02:02 – Biden, Democrats, and the origin of the shutdown
• 03:40–06:21 – Newsom’s global tour, failures in California policy
• 07:03–09:14 – Trump on the economy; expert commentary on economic narratives
• 09:39–10:33 – US “bailout”/swap line and economic foreign policy
• 12:34–19:24 – Berkeley riots, DOJ investigation, campus free speech crisis
• 21:51–29:49 – Blaine Holt on Ukraine, Western policy blunders, corruption
• 32:29–35:18 – The war on cartels, geopolitics and Europe’s mixed response
• 35:35–36:21 – Unrest emerging in China
• 38:58–39:48 – National Guard, Supreme Court, and appeals to the UN

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Conclusion

This episode delivers a robust, often raucous, critique of progressive politics and academia, lambasting Democratic leadership and media narratives, while championing free speech and conservative values. Insider commentary from Harmeet Dillon, Andrew Colvett, and Blaine Holt, especially on University riots and the Ukraine war, give the episode depth. The signature tone is irreverent, biting, and saturated with patriotic fervor.

Listeners are left with a strong sense that, in Rob Carson’s view, a cultural and political reckoning is at hand—one that will be decided by renewed patriotism, genuine free speech, and clear-eyed assessments of global and domestic threats.

Transcript

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[Caller or Audience Member]

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[Rob Carson]

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[Political Commentator]

But now they're not even trying to hide the fact that they created the shutdown from the start. And they're enraged that their leaders caved like Don Lemon's futon on Fat Guy Friday. So how was. How was it Trump's shutdown to begin with? A shutdown causing so many awful things. He was starving children and causing planes to crash, and TV ladies had to forego their nail appointments.

[Harmeet Dillon]

I went and got my eyebrows done the other day, and my eyebrow technician was like, they're gonna fire two technicians from here because all of our clients don't have money to come.

[Political Commentator]

And now that the shutdown ends, the same dopes that pinned it on Trump are now blaming the Dems for ending it. They claim compassion for those suffering, but were secretly behind it. If it meant the Dems got something.

[Rob Carson]

Out of it, yes.

[Political Commentator]

At least they're finally admitting it was the Dems shutdown. They owned this fiasco, like Sunny Hawson's ancestors owned slaves.

[Rob Carson]

Ouch.

[Political Commentator]

And now Dems are calling on Chuck to step down. But if the shutdown were truly causing Americans Har. Why would they call for his job? He was doing something good. Am I right? That would be like James Carville firing his assistant for feeding him more mice.

[Rob Carson]

There you go. That's the reason why Greg Gutfeld is kicking butt, is because conservative comedy's on the Ascension, because the left can't be taken seriously anymore. And also, there's truth in it. That's the most important thing. When I was writing for Limbaugh, the most important thing is satire isn't satire unless there's truth. And if you just sit there and lie every night during your monologue and say things about Donald Trump that aren't true, it's not funny. It's not funny. So that's why that's why he's kicking butt. There you go. And of course, again, the shutdown was basically just the next thing. It was another attempt to try to go after Donald Trump. They've been doing it for nine months now. Throwing a temper tantrum. Throwing a temper tantrum. And this is just the latest thing to do, a face plant, you know. Do you remember when we could gather together and be proud of our country? Do you remember standing with everyone when the national anthem played and weeping with joy? Do you remember that? Do you remember when I grew up, we had Schoolhouse Rock, we had Great American melting pot. We had all of these, the shot herds around the world, all of this. And we didn't think twice about it. I remember when I was a kid, the US Olympic hockey team, men's team beat the Russians. And it was like the next day when we finally saw it and I was 12, 13 years old, crying my eyes out. Crying my eyes out. You know, the Democrat Party is in its death throes right now and we're getting ready to go into our 250th year next year. And the patriotism and the joy are going to overwhelm these people as they spiral into hell. They spiral into hell. You know, Gavin Newsom is got everything to do with running for president and nothing to do with his state. He is the worst poser, the worst example of a human being, the fakest politician I've ever seen in my life. And you've got two people in the Democrat Party who have no shot of winning the presidency, who are doing everything they can just to defy Donald Trump. One of them is Gavin Newsom. The other is J.B. tetzler in Illinois. Both of them think that they're going to become president. Pritzker is even less of a chance of winning. There's nothing likable about him at all. The only thing that Gavin Newsom has is his, is his veneers and his slicked backed hair. I mean, honestly, he looks like the joker had a, had a baby with, with. I don't even, I don't even know. I don't even know. As he was gallivanting around the world, Gavin Newsom, he said that the, the backing down from the, the keeping the government closed and the suffering, he said it was pathetic. He said, this isn't a deal, it's a surrender. Don't bend the knee. And this guy is traveling around the world while his state descends into hell. This is Lee Zeldin talking about what's going on in California while Gavin Newsom travels around the world campaigning to be president three years from now.

[Guest Commentator]

Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom need to get off of their asses and allow all the people in Los Angeles to rebuild their freaking homes and their businesses. Okay? You have people who are suffering extreme amount of frustration, anger and pain because of whatever type of bureaucratic red tape, delays and incompetency is resulting in the local and state leadership preventing people from building what is theirs.

[Rob Carson]

He is so profoundly selfish that he has abandoned the people of California in many ways to campaign for president. He thinks he's going to be the president. I got news for you. I don't believe the American people are going to vote. A faker like you who has a massive amount of failure in his past, including $130 billion for high speed rail. And it was originally going to cost 30 billion and it was supposed to be done five years ago. They haven't laid a single ounce of track. Also, $30 billion for homelessness, and homelessness has gotten worse and nobody knows where the money went other than that. You're doing a great job there, Governor.

[Donald Trump (clip)]

Hey, hey, hey.

[Rob Carson]

I think I got some good news. Let's do our good news jingle, shall we? We love to win, winning, winning. So much winning. It's lots of winning, lots of winning. Lots of winning. Lots of winning, lots of winning, lots of winning. It's all so good. Yeah. And there's gonna be a lot of winning. As we head into the holiday season. I'm looking forward to Christmas and Hanukkah. I already got my Norfolk pine. I've got some ornaments with my dog's faces on them, and I'm gonna put those up there. And we're gonna quarter because the governor government is open and the economy's kicking butt and people are making more money and everything. Here is Donald Trump talking last night, I believe it was to Laura Ingram about the price of eating going down.

[Donald Trump (clip)]

We are doing phenomenally well. This is the greatest economy we've ever had. Their talking points all course are high costs. By the way, the only thing is beef, beef coffee is a little high because the ranchers are doing great. Coffee, coffee. We're going to lower some tariffs. We're going to have some coffee come in. We're going to take care of all this stuff very quickly, very easily. It's surgical. It's beautiful to watch. But our costs are way lower. Now. Wal Mart came out with a statement that they do every year for many, many decades, and they said that a Thanksgiving meal cost 25% less this Thanksgiving.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Donald Trump (clip)]

Coming up. Think of that than it did last Thanksgiving.

[Andrew Colvett]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. And you can feel it too. Last night Scott Besson was on with Rob Schmidt on Newsmax. Just to rem you of how bad things when, when Joe Biden was the president.

[Economic Expert or Treasury Official]

I think what the president is frustrated by is the media narrative. Because the media narrative, the 20, 21, 22, 23 and even 24 during the campaign was Americans don't know how good they have it. It's a vibe.

[Rob Carson]

They ignored the pain we went through when Joe Biden was the president. I witnessed it every single day session.

[Economic Expert or Treasury Official]

I still remember that word. And you from the New York Times to former, former Fed vice chair to Wall Street Journal even, they said it was a vibe session. And instead of owning the inflation, they.

[Rob Carson]

Watched the price of used cars double. I worked at a Toyota dealership at that time. I watched the supply chain implode where we went from 600 cars on the.

[Economic Expert or Treasury Official]

Lot to five, said the American people don't understand how they're feeling. And we came in, we inherited a mess.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah.

[Economic Expert or Treasury Official]

We have brought the inflation down.

[Rob Carson]

Yes.

[Economic Expert or Treasury Official]

And Rob, there are two ways for curing affordability. Bringing inflation down. Because some of the things, some of the prices we are going to be able to bring down. So energy prices, gasoline down quite a bit. Four year low. Yeah. Four year low. Mortgage rates when the President was January 20th.

[Rob Carson]

Just wait till the head of the Fed steps down in May. The interest rates are going to go down, down, down and home sales are going to go up, up, up. That is just fantastic news. Here's Scott Bessett. Yesterday, I thought it was kind of funny he was on MSNBC because MSNBC is trying to make it like Donald Trump's, you know, focusing on other things like giving money to Argentina and whatnot and not focusing on the American people. And Scott Bessant had him for lunch.

[Guest Commentator]

How does a $20 billion bailout of Argentina help Americans? You' president's person on that. Can you explain to those here who are feeling the pinch, including America's farmers, why the United States is helping out Argentina?

[Economic Expert or Treasury Official]

Well, can you. Do you know what a swap line is?

[Rob Carson]

It's currency swap.

[Economic Expert or Treasury Official]

Yes, yes, but what, what is that?

[Rob Carson]

That's. You're the treasury secretary.

[Economic Expert or Treasury Official]

Yes, but why would you call it a bailout? That is how in most bailouts you don't make money. The US Government made money. We used our financial, we used our financial balance sheet to stabilize the government.

[Rob Carson]

Yes.

[Economic Expert or Treasury Official]

Are one of our great allies in Latin America during an election, the president there won the in a landslide. The government's going to make money and I would rather use peace through economic strength than have to be shooting at narco boats coming offshore if the government collapsed.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, there you go. And by the way, freedom is spreading through south and Central America because Donald Trump's making those areas great again, too. Coming up, I've got a lot of information on the the ridicul ridiculousness, the absolute unacceptability of the violent riots that took place at Berkeley when the TPUSA event happened. And now the government, the doj, is not going to take it anymore. And I'm hoping that this is the beginning of the end for this nonsense, this affront to free speech. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson show, relentlessly slowing the spread of the stupid every day. It's the Rob Carson show. That is the radical left at Berkeley. Berkeley was supposed to be some sort of what harbinger for free speech at one point in history, back in the 60s, right. Back in the 60s. It was still lefty garbage back then as well. But the other night there was a Turning Point USA event, a peaceful event. Rob Schneider was hosting it. And the left came out as they are want to do antifa present and, and I'm hoping, hoping and praying that these sons of bees are thrown in jail, to be quite honest. And I hope some heads are cracked. I really, really do. The left has run roughshod across our country for decades now. I remember watching this as it gradually grew on campus for years and years and years. You'd see people like Ann Coulter, you know, going to do a speech and she'd get protested, all of that. And then it kind of got worse where actually they would get into the, infiltrate the auditoriums and chase the conservative speech speakers away. And now they're just all out attacking the people as they go in. And the DOJ is launching a full investigation into UC Berkeley after the university failed to protect conservatives. And make no bones about it, they did fail and they did it intentionally. That's what they do. They protect the hell out of liberal speakers, although they don't need to because conservatives don't do this kind of crap, but they actually enable this stuff to happen on University Camp. Here is Harmeet Dillon. She's in charge of the civil rights division of the DoJ talking about what happened at Berkeley.

[Harmeet Dillon]

The Berkeley, you know, local police as well seem to be unprepared, undermanned.

[Rob Carson]

They treated like the Portland police actually help antifa out when they're when they're.

[Harmeet Dillon]

Violently attacking ICE as if it's a both sides problem. It is not a both sides problem. When a violent mob like Antifa comes and attacks like this, it's what we call a heckler's veto in first, it's.

[Rob Carson]

Time for the children to get a spanking amendment jurisprudence.

[Harmeet Dillon]

And given the fact that there has now been a terrorist designation here, the Joint Terrorism Task Force is going to be looking into this together with the doj, my civil rights division and the FBI and understand what happened here. How did it come to be the case that when Berkeley has noticed that this type of violence occurs on the campus when conservative speakers come to speak and by Rob Schneider, they put the.

[Rob Carson]

Protest zone right in front of the entrance so people would have to walk.

[Harmeet Dillon]

Through the violence had been scheduled to speak. It was a sold out crowd of 2,000 people and less than 1,000 people. People were there in the stadium because people were intimidated by this violence. So this is not a consequence free situation. Berkeley has announced. Oh we're so happy that a thousand.

[Rob Carson]

Take every damn bit of their federal funding away.

[Harmeet Dillon]

People came to hear this. That is not the whole story. The story is that when Sonia Sotomayor comes to speak, when the Dalai Lama comes to speak, the Berkeley campus somehow is able to protect the speaker and all of the people who attend. And when it's a conservative speaker, it isn't. So we have some serious questions and concerns about this and there will be a full federal investigation.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah, this sort of temper tantrum has been going on for a very long time. University of Missouri. Remember when they Black Lives Matter overtook the quad and the mom professor from the J school came out and protected them and people tried to walk through the lines. Jewish students trying to go to school in different camp around the country and anti Israel protesters getting in their faces having no go zones on campus. This bullcrap has to end or we shut down the damn universities. It is utterly, utterly ridiculous. This is Andrew Colvett, he's a Charlie Kirk show producer talking about how coordinated this was to go after people just coming to see people that speak at a university.

[Andrew Colvett]

You know, it seems like it was a coordinated attack on a peaceful event.

[Rob Carson]

It was.

[Andrew Colvett]

You can't make this stuff up, as you said in your, in your lead up that they, they say in their flyers that we're inciting violence just by being on campus.

[Rob Carson]

Years ago, well, the left started saying that words are violence. They're setting up for this. It's been a gradual progression where conservative speech is this and then Words are violence. They've literally said that. And it gives them excuse to do this sort of crap.

[Andrew Colvett]

In hosting an event with Rob Schneider, a comedian, actor. And the irony is just so rich because they say that our words are violence, but their actual violence is mostly peaceful.

[Rob Carson]

Yes.

[Andrew Colvett]

And so they cordoned off. They put their. The university put the Free Speech Plaza right in front of them. Front of the entrance.

[Rob Carson]

Yes.

[Andrew Colvett]

So of course all chaos broke out and we were funneled into one entryway into this venue and it took for that car backfire before the cops actually got in into gear and actively engaged the crowd. These agitators, these far left antifa thugs.

[Rob Carson]

It's time for this stuff to end. In a letter sent Tuesday, Harmey Dillon notified the president, James Milligan, the UC Board of Regents, that the DOJ is investigating the university's handling of the incident. Potential violations of federal civil rights law. They're demanding all communication between campus officials and student groups concerning the events of protest. All security policies manuals and staffing records for November 10, all video, audio and digital recordings from UC equipment and personnel. All complaints, incident reports and investigations connected to the violence. There has to be hell to pay here. Is Harmeet Dillon talking about the possibility of a conspiracy between the police and, and people at Berkeley?

[Harmeet Dillon]

Absolutely. It could be 18, 241, 242. We also have hate crime statutes that apply. I believe that some of the epithets that were hurled at some of the members of the crowd made reference to their race and to other protected characteristics under the law. You know, the comments about Charlie and.

[Rob Carson]

They hate the Jews you see before it, so. And they really hate Christians.

[Harmeet Dillon]

We will be obviously looking at, you know, a deep dive into all the potential criminal and civil aspects of this. But you know, the obvious version here is, oh my gosh, it's antifa attacking people. But I also have concerns about UC Berkeley's history of not protecting conservative speakers on the campus. And I also have concerns as the top civil rights lawyer in the United States about whether the Berkeley police are doing their job under the law to protect citizens equally. That's an equal protection concern, Laura. It's the type of thing that we do bring in the civil rights division and we are going to be looking at that very seriously here in this.

[Rob Carson]

You know, I like to say overwhelm the left with joy and patriotism and that's what we do. But I'm going to leave it up to authorities to kick some ass because honestly, that's. That's where it's going they're committing acts of war and they need to be met with reciprocation. I'm not saying fatal, but certainly, certainly pepper balls, certainly batons, you know. But honestly, this nonsense has to end. We have a country that is here to protect unpopular speech. Okay? We have a First Amendment for that reason and that this is allowed to happen. It's supposed free thinking Berkeley, the university system has become the opposite of what it was supposed to be. And it's been this way for a very long time. Here's Andrea. Andrew Colvett of the Charlie Kirk Show.

[Andrew Colvett]

We'll tell you. Two weeks before the event, we had to switch to the university's ticket ticketing system.

[Rob Carson]

And so what they hijack and sabotage.

[Andrew Colvett]

These events happens when you do that, is it opens it up for far left agitators and protesters. Disrupt disruptors. To grab those tickets.

[Rob Carson]

Yes.

[Andrew Colvett]

And so what we had happen is that there was about 500 tickets of people that didn't show up. And that's their whole game. They want to grab the tickets and then leave it empty to make it look like we don't have a big growing movement in the wake of Charlie's assassination. And the truth is, thousands of people were not able to get into this event because either their tickets didn't work, they got scared away or harassed and attacked and had to flee the scene. And the university's response was, was, it's not our job to fill your event. Well, we filled it anyways, but there was thousands more that wanted to be there and were unable to make it.

[Rob Carson]

This is the sort of activities that the left is doing. They do it with no kings. They did it at Tesla dealerships, they're doing it at American universities. And I think the. The American people have had a belly full of is gone as far as it can go, and it is time to turn it back. Fortunately, we have somebody in office who is causing these universities to lose major funding for anti SEM and whatnot. And hopefully they're gonna take a giant bite out of Berkeley's budget. Enough is enough. And if all else fails, shut them down. Shut them down. They're failing our children, teaching them garbage. And then when you try to speak freely, attacking them physically. It's ridiculous. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. Hey, guys, it's crazy. Hey, guys, it's Carson. Forget fresh olive oil. I eat olive oil every day. I got rid of seed oils years ago. Life is too short to not have wonderful fresh olive oil. And I mean fresh olive Oil packs the most flavor and healthy ingredients when it's fresh from the farm. And that's the problem with supermarket olive oils. They're not fresh. They can sit on the shelf for months, growing stale. That's why I get my olive oil from small, award winning farms thanks to a fellow named T.J. robinson, also known as the olive oil hunter. When I tasted TJ Farm's fresh olive oils, I fell in love with their vibrant, grassy flavors. They were incredibly delicious on salad, veggies, pasta, meat, fish, you name it. And as an introduction to his fresh pressed Olive Oil Club, TJ is willing to send you a full size $39 bottle of one of the world's finest artisanal olive oils fresh from the new harvest for just $1 to help him cover shipping. There's no commitment to buy anything now or later. Get your free $39 bottle for just $1. And t difference freshness makes, go to getfreshrobcarson.com that's getfreshrobcarson.com for a free bottle and pay just $1 shipping. Get fresh robcarson.com it is a rob Carson show. One of our favorite guests, Blaine Holt, Brigadier General, US Air Force C17 Commander, Deputy Military representative to NATO Newsmax contributor, dog owner doggy daddy joins us on the Newsmax island. How you doing, bro? Good to be with you.

[Blaine Holt]

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[Rob Carson]

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[Blaine Holt]

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[Rob Carson]

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[Blaine Holt]

There was World War I and it.

[Rob Carson]

Was, it was one. Okay, okay. It was one. Oh, yeah.

[Blaine Holt]

And the devastation. And you know why that I posted that? Because if you were to do the same thing over Ukraine right now, you, you find the exact same look.

[Rob Carson]

Wow, that is remarkable. It's the forgotten war. I lived in Kansas City, and The World War I Museum is remarkable. Have you ever been?

[Blaine Holt]

Oh, yes, definitely.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, my brother. It is, it is remarkable the amount of suffering, the amount of suffering that so many men have gone through over the years. Let's talk a little bit about Ukraine. It's off the front page, Donald. I was, I was, I don't know, hoping against hope that Donald Trump was going to be able to negotiate something. But you said there's some developing things happening. Russian forces entering a major Ukrainian city. What's going on, brother?

[Blaine Holt]

Yeah. So in the center of what we call the line of contact or the front, there is a city and it's called Pokrovsk. And the reason that it's important to understand what Perkrovsk is, it has been the logistics hub and the lifeline to the Ukrainian forces. Well, starting in May, Russian forces opened up an offensive on Prokofsk and they have finally now encircled it and taken it. And there's really thousands of Ukrainian troops that are trapped. And the Russians are entering the city under cover of fog. They're coming in on motorcycles, all kinds of Mad Max looking vehicles. Why would they do that? Well, this is how they're avoiding drones. So it's a very desperate situation there. But the ramifications are great because after Pokrovsk, there is really nothing stopping the Russian army to get to the Dnieper River. And so where I think you're going to see the Russian government now start to make some demands for capitulation out of Ukraine and demand final talk.

[Rob Carson]

So the possibility of Donald Trump, he brought up that Ukraine would be able to maintain the land that it has. That whole thing has changed. The dynamic is changing in the favor of Russia.

[Blaine Holt]

Now it is changing. There are some very interesting plans being bantered about. World famous macroeconomist Martin Armstrong at Armstrong Economics, he's consulted with almost every single president and world leader. He was asked by a member of the Trump administration to construct what a peace plan now would look like for Zelensky. It's a fine plan and I hope the President is considering it and getting with the Russians immediately to start to talk about how we carve out what the new Ukraine is going to look like and how we bring peace and stability to that region. The war has to end. It's not a military answer.

[Rob Carson]

Well, we sent hundreds of billions of dollars wholesale, gave them a blank check, which half of it, we don't even know where the hell it went to. I would assume that GR train has cost them greatly with regard to munitions and whatnot. And so they're, they're probably fighting with very little Maybe on the end of their supply chain militarily, wouldn't you say?

[Blaine Holt]

I would. And what the Biden administration did when this whole thing opened up is they may have sent incrementally weapons on painstakingly slow wartime logistics that didn't really exist in a, in a McNamara Vietnam way. What we didn't give them was a strategy. What we didn't deal with them on. How do you do combined arms and how do you make efficient use of weapons? That was not done. And, and that's not on President Trump's watch either.

[Economic Expert or Treasury Official]

Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

Why did they bring up Tomahawk missiles.

[Blaine Holt]

Last couple of weeks, you know, a negotiable element to the game. Do you start to sense Russians want to now do something because you said the word Tomahawk? Yeah, but quite honestly, we're not, we're not bringing Tomahawks to the world's number one nuclear power.

[Rob Carson]

It was, it was just a, it was a trump card. It was a trump card. And, and it looks like the, the Russians play. What, what. Honestly, you know, you're, you're a veteran. You're a, you know, you devoted your life to the defense of the United States. What the hell was accomplished? What, what was accomplished for Russia, what was accomplished for Ukraine by all of these hundreds of thousands, millions of people dying and being injured.

[Blaine Holt]

Millions of people. People we had what started out as a deterrable war. You even had Angela Merkel and the former President of France Hollande admit that in their view the Minsk Accords, which we were holding onto all these years since 2014, that it was a ruse, that they weren't going to keep up with that. Well, the Russians had been making demands and finally they went across the line. So what have the Russians achieved? Well, they paid a very dear price for this reality state that they now hold in Donetsk. But what about Ukraine? Ukraine is enduring life changing, indelible scars that will be with them in perpetuity. And what we want to hold on to is now the port of Odessa. We want to give them a self defense capability, but they're not going to be in NATO. They'll be lucky if the world allows EU accession. And what I think is there needs to be full audit accountability and European leaders who need to be held responsible for the continuation of the war. Even though President Trump has tried to be the peacemaker to come in and they've resisted him.

[Rob Carson]

And also I think we need to look at Joe Biden essentially inviting Russia to invade.

[Andrew Colvett]

He did.

[Blaine Holt]

He did. The trap was set in Kabul where we had our military disaster, and we showed a lot of American weakness there and that we wouldn't stand by allies and partners. And that was an enticement. And so you saw immediately Russian forces were building up on the border of Ukraine. Then Joe Biden said those words. Well, maybe just a small incursion. Yes, maybe just a small incursion. You never say that kind of thing to a determined adversary. And again, even that night, we could have worked something out with the Russians to prevent this, this. This. This disaster.

[Rob Carson]

Well, we find that Joe Biden went over and delivered a speech about. About corruption to Ukrainians. The Ukrainians were doing an eye roll because they knew that Joe Biden was involved in corruption in Ukraine. His son with the. The Ukrainian gas company in there. And I don't doubt that Joe Biden did that. It is as a distraction, to be quite honest. I don't doubt that.

[Blaine Holt]

World's largest crime scene. Joe Biden admitted as much when he was on the CFR stage as the vice President about how he pushed around their, Their. Their justice system. The Wall Street Journal reported what the CIA was talking about with their 12 little bases that led up to the color revolution in my on Square in 2014, which was attended by Newland. She's handing out cookies to people, and John McCain was there. This is sick. This is sick. And what we need to do is we need to go back and review this stuff or we're going to keep doing it.

[Rob Carson]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, we got a lot more to cover. Blaine Holt, can you hold on through the rake, my friend? Much to cover on the other side?

[Blaine Holt]

Absolutely.

[Rob Carson]

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[Blaine Holt]

Well, Germany may be the latest one but the UK started it and this is, but look, hold on. This is great news. This is lovely. Let me explain the, the, the, the fact that they're squawking and getting all angsty about us interdicting drug running supply chains means that we're tapping into very sensitive spots about how money is laundered by the cartels. Yes, this is about the drug drugs, but let's go back to things like, oh I don't know, Nicaragua and the Iran Contra affair. Let's go to the Opium War brought China down. So drugs have been a favorite of the intel communities, especially the deep state segments of them. And they're squawking and they're screaming, what are you doing? We don't want you disrupting this. Well this is what I believe. The president's war on the cartels is truly a out. He's ripping the Jenga block out. Of the bottom of the tower.

[Rob Carson]

Wow.

[Blaine Holt]

All the illicit and illegal activity he this is. The cartels go through the Chinese Communist Party.

[Rob Carson]

Yes.

[Blaine Holt]

Shadow bankers, the private bankers and the World Economic Forum, and on and on. And you know what? All of the illegals, even the compromised little worms in the swamp there in D.C. where you're at, they have something to lose out of this. And so you're going to see a lot of crocodile tears over really fast speedboats with fentanyl in them.

[Rob Carson]

I was wondering if there had to be some sort of connection to Washington D.C. because why else would you allow this to happen? Why, why, Blaine Holt, for the last four years have we allowed the fentanyl to kill hundreds of thousands of young people. And not until Donald Trump do we see PSAs, do we see a war on fentanyl. Not a damned word. Word said as Venezuela traffic drugs here as. As it came across from China, no one held accountable for it. I was wondering, somebody had to be on the receiving end of something on this.

[Blaine Holt]

Oh, many people. And so here's the thing. My warning to Americans are, is as the cartels start to get squished and pushed, don't forget we've had four years of open borders. The cartels are on every main street in America and they're interlocking arms with all of the terror cells and the People's Liberation army folks that came across and all of them. So we've got to come together as communities. And at the same time, we're demanding that the DOJ starts the season of accountability wherever the evidence takes them. Like yesterday, you can't phone this in from Tampa Bay anymore. And those are necessary things to keep our country secure and to realize the vision that President Trump's trying to lay out for this country. Country.

[Rob Carson]

There's nothing that makes me smile more than antifa thug getting his ass beat or a drug goat getting blown up. I just watch it again and again and again. It's just neat.

[Blaine Holt]

But we want to see trophy bucks. We want to see the big dogs, the ones who really have had the power and abused it just at an amazing level.

[Economic Expert or Treasury Official]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Rob Carson]

Let's finally about a minute here. Potential revolution brewing in China. What are you hearing?

[Blaine Holt]

Yeah. So the Chinese people are getting crushed. Their economy is going so far south, Money is fleeing the country. They have new rounds of COVID and other things that are happening. And the desperate local governments are actually rolling up private property, taking rights. And actually the Chinese people are now starting to rise up at the lower levels. They're assassinating State representatives, they're burning down factories that they used to work in. There's. And now they're putting posters everywhere that nobody's ripping them down saying, down with the CCP down. So as Xi Jinping and the factions try to duke it out for who's really in charge of the country, it's the Chinese people themselves that might be determining here that the Mao dynasty has finally come and run its course.

[Rob Carson]

Wouldn't it be great 36 years after Tiananmen Square? Blaine Holt, always good to have you on Dangerous Intellectuals Podcast is the name of your podcast and I love the intro intro to it, by the way. And the content is fantastically compelling. Where can people find that? And all of your work, brother, come.

[Blaine Holt]

To me@dangerous intellectuals.com or on X at Danger Thinking and just put out an article today on Canada's ostriches going down and the Marxism there on Newsmax.com on the Insiders page at the irascible disrespect rupture. And I'm always appreciative of being on your radio show, my friend.

[Rob Carson]

All right, you're a good man. We'll talk soon. Let's take a break and come back. This is the Rob Carson Show. Van Alo. Love him, love him, love him, love him, love him. So Blade Hole, that, that was a fascinating interview. I thought that was absolutely amazing. And if you get a chance to check out the podcast today, Blaine Holt's interview just there, we talked about everything from Ukraine, gave us some great insider information. I mean, I don't think I've heard anyone go in depth as much as Blaine just did. It was just fascinating to listen to. So there you go. Just go to your usual podcast platforms if you would look up Rob Carson's show. I thought that was absolutely remarkable. So this is kind of interesting. The Supreme Court is going to decide if Trump can control riots against ICE facilities using the National Guard. J.B. tetzler. Pritzler. Pritzklor, Pritzke, whatever. And Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson won a district injunction against Donald Trump's use of the National Guard or other military to quell the riots and violent disorder in Chicago, Portland and Los Angeles. This is essentially like Orville Faubus did and like the Democrat Party has done, standing in the schoolhouse doors. By the way, I just got a report out of Chicago that carjackings are down 50% since the national Guard has been sent there. And robberies are down, murders are down, all of the things that they're afraid of being solved because the Democrat party in cities like Chicago. They want to keep people, particularly people of color, uneducated, impoverished, dependent and aggrieved. That is their goal. That is their goal. And once that falls, it all falls down. Here is Brandon Johnson. He, he wants to bring in the United nations, the United nations to battle.

[Harmeet Dillon]

Donald Trump and ICE Mayor Brandon Johnson is asking the United nations to intervene to stop your operations. Here is what he said before the UN Human Rights Council. Listen to this.

[Caller or Audience Member]

The federal government's immigration enforcement has, has been marked by violence and an assault on the dignity of all Chicagoans. I call on this council to hold.

[Rob Carson]

The federal on the United nations government of the United most corrupt organizations in the history of the world to the same standards. Bring, bring the blue helmets here. Let's see how they land, how long they last.

[Caller or Audience Member]

Accountability you apply elsewhere in the world. No country should be above international law.

[Rob Carson]

Oh, dear God. We are not ruled by international law.

[Caller or Audience Member]

The Human Rights Council to consider additional measures of accountability, including a session to examine the worsening human.

[Rob Carson]

They are desperate. They do not want the wall, the, the essentially the Berlin Wall to fall between people in America's inner cities and the rest. They want to keep them angry, impoverished and uneducated. Lawyers close to the case say that that constitutes rebellion or insurrection and justifies the use of the military. Otherwise civilian law enforcement would be sufficient. So let's hope and pray that this doesn't work out for Brandon. Be basically the opposite of what the National Guard was able to do when, when Eisenhower was the president. And, and there's no doubt about it, the Democrat Party is as racist as it's ever been. Let's take a break and come back. Last hour of the show, right ahead. I trust me, you don't want to.